Left-Handed in an Islamic World

A social anthropologist recounts his time living and working in the Middle East. In Left-Handed in the Islamic World , the author, a social anthropologist, shares stories of Arabs he met and lived with, covering a period from 1968 to 2012. Lawrence of Arabia serves as an inspiration for the journey. Throughout the book the author calls upon a significant amount of history to give a background and to contextualize the stories. The stories describe the social lives of Arabs in a variety of places,